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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Chapter 4: Of Mr. Danvers's his Witnesses against Infant-Baptism.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 17. Indeed I find some that before those times had been above Ordinances and against all baptism, but none against Infant-baptism as unlawful. Therefore Augustine saith elsewhere, that it is easier to find Heretics that deny all baptism, than any that change the form of baptizing; so sure hath the Tradition of universal practice delivered down the form and words of baptism to us.
§. 17. Indeed I find some that before those times had been above Ordinances and against all baptism, but none against Infant-baptism as unlawful. Therefore Augustine saith elsewhere, that it is easier to find Hereticks that deny all baptism, than any that change the form of baptizing; so sure hath the Tradition of universal practice delivered down the form and words of baptism to us.
§. 18. Afterward pag. 230. Ed. 2. Mr. Danvers cometh to Austin again, and saith that Vincentius Victor did oppose Austin in the point of Infant-baptism, citing August. li. 3. c. 14. de Anima.
Answ. Not a word of truth: no such matter in that Chapter or the whole book.